After a week of holiday cheer, Netflix is about to give its subscribers an existential crisis with some new Black Mirror.
The streaming platform on Thursday released the first trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, which is apparently a standalone film and not part of the sci-fi anthology show's planned fifth season. As revealed in the footage, the film takes place in the 1980s and revolves around a programmer tasked with turning a book into a video game, but, according to Netflix, he is subsequently faced with "a mind-mangling challenge."
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